Sickle Cell Anemia

Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle Cell is an inherited red blood cells disorder. Normal blood cells are like round doughnuts, and they are able to move through small veins in order to deliver oxygen to your body. Unlike you, Sickle Cell patient’s blood cells become hard, sticky, and tend to sickles. When a Sickle Cells patient’s blood sickles through there, veins it tends to clog the flow, and break apart, causing pain, damage, low oxygen, low blood count, or anemia. Infect I have Sickle Cell, and I have been fitting it all my life for 25 yrs, and my doctor said I wasn’t going to live to see the age of 12 yrs. It comes to show you what my GOD almighty can do! As I give my report you will learned how a person inherited Sickle Cell, what is Sickle Cell, what makes the red blood red blood sickle, and much more that you might not are known about Sickle Cell.

Sickle cell disease describes a group of inherited blood disorders characterized by chronic anemia, painful events, and various complications due to associated tissue and organ damage. Because sickle cell diseases are characterized by the rapid loss of red blood cells as they enter the circulation, they are classified as hemolytic disorders, "hemolytic" referring to the destruction of the cell membrane of red blood cells resulting in the release of hemoglobin.

The most common and best-known type of sickle cell disease is sickle cell anemia, which is also called meniscocytosis, sicklemia, or SS disease. All types of sickle cell disease are caused by a genetic change in hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein inside the red blood cells. The red blood cells of affected individuals contain a predominance of a structural variant of the usual adult hemoglobin. This variant hemoglobin, called sickle hemoglobin, has a tendency to polymerize into rod-like structures that alter the shape of the usually flexible red blood cells. The cells take on a shape that resembles the curved blade of the sickle, an agricultural tool....